The Stranger's Dan Savage got an invite from the National Organization for Marriage's Brian Brown to debate LGBT issues and Christianity. Savage took him up on the offer, hosting Brown at his home for a "dinner-table debate" moderated by The New York Times's Mark Oppenheimer, who writes the "Beliefs" column at the Times.

Chris Geidner is the legal editor for BuzzFeed News and is based in Washington, DC. In 2014, Geidner won the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association award for journalist of the year.